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Providing guidance that helps students practice and troubleshoot their exam technique, these books send them into their exam with the confidence to aim for the best grades.- Enables students to avoid common misconceptions and mistakes by highlighting...

Exam Board: AQALevel & Subject: AS PhysicsFirst teaching: September 2015Next exams: June 2023 Checked by AQA examiners, this is an essential study and revision guide for the 2015 AQA AS and A-level Year 1 Physics specification sections 1, 2...

Exam Board: AQALevel & Subject: GCSE Combined Science: TrilogyFirst teaching: September 2016 Next exams: June 2024 This Workbook will support and motivate students to reach their full potential with targeted questions and support. ...

Since The Mid-1980s The Notion Of "Genre" Has Been Dramatically Redefined. This redefinition has prompted theorists and scholars alike to analyze the shaping power of language and culture, and the interplay between the individual and the social.; Recent...

From trusted primary education expert Andrew Brodie, the Let's Do... series is the ideal home learning resource for children. Expertly designed to meet all the demands of the National Curriculum, the workbooks provide all the practice children need to...

Collins Primary Focus: Grammar and Punctuation Introductory Pupil Book is aimed at ages 6+. Presented in a child-friendly design, each grammar concept is supported by visual cues. Follow-up activities allow children to develop grammar and punctuation...

We live in an age of narrative: life stories are a crucial ingredient in what makes us human and, in turn, what kind of human they make us. In recent years, narrative analysis has grown and is used across many areas of research. Interest in this rapidly...

As a break from their ordained labors, what might the Muses today do on their lunch hour? This collection of witty, shrewd, and imaginative essays addresses interdisciplinary topics that range widely from Shakespeare, to psychoanalysis, to the practice...

Stage 7 has been endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education.Put your trust in a market-leading approach that has been used by teachers for over 10 years.Written by experienced author John Reynolds, Cambridge Checkpoint Lower Secondary...

Following on from Active Home Economics Third Level, this book covers all of the Fourth Level Outcomes and Experiences for Home Economics. It is full of activity ideas, assessment checklists and Think Pair Share sheets to help pupils become secure at...

Empathy and Mental Health shows mental health professionals how to employ a deeper understanding of subjective, objective, and interpersonal modalities of empathy in their practice. Chapters are full of case studies and examples that demonstrate...

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman offers a general audience access to over six decades of insight and expertise from a Nobel Laureate in an accessible and interesting way. Kahneman's work focuses largely on the problem of how we think, and warns...

The third book in Chris Scullion's series of video game encyclopaedias, the Sega Mega Drive and Genesis Encyclopedia is dedicated to Sega's legendary 16-bit video game console. The book contains detailed information on every single game released for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553345902Author Sam ShepardFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

When Walt Whitman self-published a collection of 12 poems entitled Leaves of Grass in 1855, he was an unknown, but ambitious, journalist from Long Island - by the time of his death he was beginning to be recognised as one of the most distinctive poetic...

In 1966 a coal slag heap collapsed on a school in south Wales, killing 144 people, most of them children. Poet Owen Sheers has given voice to those who still live in Aberfan, the pit village in which tragedy struck, and uses their collective memories to...

'Three options, as I see it - they'll kill it off entirely, you'll let it die of natural causes, I'm going to make it live again.' When the owner of a Sheffield scissor manufacturer dies, the future of the factory site falls into uncertainty. Can it...

Two early works by the consummate Latin love poet.Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BC-AD 17), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999624814Author Anne JanzerFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint Cuesta Park ConsultingPublisher Cuesta Park ConsultingWeight(grams) 426g

The 21st century is awash with ever more mixed and remixed images, writing, layout, sound, gesture, speech, and 3D objects. Multimodality looks beyond language and examines these multiple modes of communication and meaning making. Multimodality: A Social...

Build your child's reading confidence at home with books at the right level Dive under the water and discover lost treasures! Sunken ships, gold coins, giant statues and a drowned city are all waiting to be found... Topaz/Band 13...

Ways of Reading is a best-selling textbook for undergraduate students of English Language and English Literature, providing readers with the tools to analyse and interpret the meanings of literary and non-literary texts. Six sections, comprising twenty...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262529808Author Richard RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 16mm

nursing children read for pleasure and develop a life-long love of reading is a priority for all primary school teachers. The National Curriculum focuses heavily on promoting reading for pleasure and engaging pupils using a range of diverse and...

In this volume, readers experience, in English translation, the colorful and varied textual fabric of the most important literary and creative repertory of the Middle Ages. The public, organized worship of the Church had a central role in medieval life...

It be the Passover Haggadah, as Shakespeare would hast writ it, hadst the idea occurred to him.Art thee a teenager? Most wondrous. How about a tweenager? Coequal better. Perhaps thou art a drossy adolescent or gamesome adult? Readeth this while the...

Issues of identity are paramount in addressing what it means to be a teacher and teacher educator in a diverse educational world, and this book faces this challenge head on. The complex and contested view of teacher identity offers a lens for the...

History and Salvation in Medieval Ireland explores medieval Irish conceptions of salvation history, using Latin and vernacular sources from c. 700-c. 1200 CE which adapt biblical history for audiences both secular and ecclesiastical. This book examines...

When first published in 1972, Survival was considered the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. Since then, it has continued to be read and taught, and it continues to shape the way Canadians look at themselves. Distinguished,...

Build your child's reading confidence at home with books at the right level Follow Rosa's magical journey across the snow and ice towards a mysterious prince, who she must rescue in order to unlock her own true happiness. This beautiful...

Corpus Linguistics for Vocabulary provides a practical introduction to using corpus linguistics in vocabulary studies. Using freely available corpus tools, the author provides a step-by-step guide on how corpora can be used to explore key...

Exam boards: AQA, Edexcel, OCRLevel & Subject: A-level MathsFirst teaching: September 2017Next exams: June 2023 Prepare to excel in the new linear Mathematics A-level with this student book suitable for use with all UK exam boards. It covers...

Originally conceived as a trilogy, this is the first of five volumes that chart the history of the science fiction magazine from the earliest days to the present. This first volume looks at the exuberant years of the pulp magazines. It traces the...

Nick Butterworth's well known and much loved character Percy the Park Keeper stars in this beautifully told story for early readers. Percy tries to persuade a reluctant Badger to take a bath. Badger doesn't want to, so Percy takes a bath instead - only...

Did Charlotte Bronte take opium? Did the Reverend Bronte carry a loaded pistol? What, precisely, does 'wuthering' mean?Distinguished literary critic John Sutherland takes an idiosyncratic look at the world of the Brontes, from the bumps on Charlotte's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255872Author Lissette Lopez SzwydkyFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Over the first half of the nineteenth century, writers like Austen and Bronte confined their critiques to satirical portrayals of women musicians. Later, however, a marked shift occurred with the introduction of musical female characters where were...

This book investigates the 'series' in children's literature. The works of several well-known children's authors - UK and the US, traditional and contemporary - are analyzed, and using these examples, the book explores the special nature and appeal of...

Kenneth Burke's innovative use of dramatism and dialectical method have made him a powerful critical force in an extraordinary variety of disciplines-education, philosophy, history, psychology, religion, and others. While most widely acclaimed as a...

The Romance of Arthur, James J. Wilhelm's classic anthology of Arthurian literature, is an essential text for students of the medieval Romance tradition. This fully updated third edition presents a comprehensive reader, mapping the course of Arthurian...